February 2010

I was emailing with Brad this morning about some of the NoSQL stuff that we’re doing at Gluecon, and it made me think that a quick blog update might be useful. I currently have five sessions “on the board” around…

If you’ve bothered to read the Gluecon site, you’ve probably picked up on my techno-marketing-babble-jargon. Namely, the word “post-cloud.” When I first wrote that, I wasn’t sure what I meant, but I knew I was trying to convey what things…

I received a note yesterday asking about the differences between the Hackathon that we’re having at Gluecon and the Cloud Camp we’re having in conjunction with Gluecon. In my book, clarity is a lifesaver, so I thought I’d be overly…

As a guy who organizes two tech conferences that take place in Colorado, I’m in a bit of a weird place. I’m part of that “Colorado tech community” via my friends/cohorts/biz partners — people like Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Andre…

I must be getting old (er). In my pursuit to have even a beginner’s grasp of what’s going on around this cloud stuff this year, I’ve joined about 300 “groups” (what us old guys used to call “mailing lists”). One…

Let me throw some things against the wall and see if anything sticks. This week I confirmed Chris Messina (of OAuth, and now Activity Streams fame) and Jeff Lindsay (who gave an awesome talk on Webhooks last year) to speak…

Gluecon has a different “feel” to it. Having been around tech conferences for a decade now, you can tell when something just has that different “mojo” about it. Gluecon has it. I don’t know exactly what that means, but the…